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AN AMERICAN GARDEN OF EDEN 




Oitr Little Farmer from Farmington 






I ANTONIO PRINTING CO. 



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'Che yJlamo.—^uilt in 17/3 



>^-/HIS IS the cradle of Texas liberty, where Davy Ciockelt, James Bowie, 
ft^) Ben Milam and William Travis with 183 men gave up their hves after 
holdmg off Santa Anna's army of several thousand Mexicans from 
February 23, 1836, to March 6, 1836. The number of Mexicans estimated 
killed at the storming of the Alamo is about two thousand. History never 
recorded any event equal to this. This historical spot with its surrounding 
beauty invites you to Southwest Texas. 



O he illustrations in this booklet are photographic reproductions 
of scenes in Southwest Texas and the City of San Antonio, 
without an\^ exaggeration. 

Farmington is a part of this immense empire, and We not 
only tell the truth, but we confess to our failure in being able to 
illustrate and pen-picture but a small part of the beauties, at- 
tractions and opportunities of this wonderful country. 




Copyright 1912 hy H. E. 'Dickinson 



"Money Is the Result of Opportunity** 




"To Grasp Your Opportunity Is to Make Money** 




PPORTUNITY comes to a person in many 
forms, but it depends on a person's ability 
to grasp their opportunity in order to profit 
or to be profited by it. 

Many a person has opportunites of great /alue, 
which they do not take advantage of, on account of 
disinterestedness or laxity in grasping. 

With this booklet we are sending you a deed to a 
valuable lot in Farmington, Texas, depending upon your 
honesty to send us a remittance for the payment acknowl- 
edged in the deed, with the vendor's lien notes properly 
signed, or depending on you to return the deed to us and 




in doing this, we are starting a 
new idea in salesmanship, based 
upon the fact that you are a dis- 
interested person in our pro- 
position, and w^e w^ish to place 
in your hands a valuable oppor- 
tunity, which you do not have 
to lose on account of any laxity 
on your part, in grasping. 
We know^ that you have many propositions presented 
to you, but as our method of presentation is so unusual, 
w^e ask you to give us your attention, by reading what we 
have to say, as you will find as you go along, that our 
entire proposition is unusual. 

Did it ever occur to you, that you would like to place 
a little money into something that would make money for 
you? Did it ever occur to you that this desire has been 
the support of wild speculative enterprises, horse racing, 
poker playing, lotteries, crooked stock jobbing and other 
unlawful schemes, on account of the feeling within us, to 
secure money outside of our own money earning capacity? 
You have this desire right now^, w^hich is perfectly natural 
and which can be satisfied in a legitimate way, and we 
are supplying to you in a legitimate way an opportunity 
to invest a small amount, vv^hich will be highly profitable 
to you. 

All enterprises of every description, large or small. 



are more or less speculative on 
account of the uncertainties in 
life, however, the element of 
risk is minimized in carefully 
selected propositions and our 
Farmington enterprise, being 




carefully selected, the chances of loss have been squeezed 
until there is hardly any chance for you to assume. 

Farmington is surrounded by lands rich in soil; fully 
as rich as the Promised Land of the Israelites. The 
Promised Land, like Texas, needed w^ater, and when 
Moses smote the rock, he started the first flowing artesian 
well and demonstrated the first irrigation proposition 
known in the history of man. 

The land around Farmington is rich in water, and 
every man, like Moses, can secure his own water by tap- 
ping the earth. 




Irrigation is solving many problems of cultivation and 
it seems marvelous to see the w^onderful growth of plant 
life when properly nourished with water. Irrigation around 
Farmington is scientifically applied by the Wiggins sys- 
tem, which feeds the plant by distributing the water to 
the roots, under the soil, as the plant life needs it. 

This method produces most marvelous results, doub- 
les and trebles the profits of cultivation with less work 
and takes away the usual hard work and drudgery of the 
farming occupation. 

We are not selling you a farm, but we are showing 
you what can be done on two or more lots with the Wig- 
gin's system of irrigation. You can raise any of the 



following, which will provide a family bountifully: figs, 
oranges, grape fruit, peaches, apricots, strawberries, can- 
taloupes, watermelons, celery, Bermuda onions, tomatoes, 
cauliflower, peas, beans and sugar cane. Talk about your 
land of milk and honey, say! Moses must have been 
thinking of Texas and looking for Farmington, when 
seeking the Promised Land. We can imagine the delights 
of the Children of Israel, if they could have set down to a 
big dinner and have eaten the things just mentioned, not 
to say anything of the fat Texas chickens and turkeys. 

You may never come to Farmington, but others will, 
and they are the ones who will pay you your price, as 
they vv^ill need your lot. 



Fourth t5W(S5ion 

' 'San Francisco de 

la Espada. " 

Suiltin 1731 




Second cTiCission "San Jose 
Built in 1720 




You may wonder why we send you a deed without 
ever having seen you. We don't hesitate to tell you 
that we have looked you up, and our information shows 
us that you are a person of good character, unquestioned 
honesty and with considerable influence, and in return for 
the confidence we place in you, w^e ask you to send us 
the names of not more than five people holding respon- 
sible positions, to whom you would like to have us send 
deeds, depending on their honesty to make returns for 
the same, as we are sending to you. This is in the nature 
of a request and it is not obligatory. 

If you wish to retain the enclosed deed, send by bank 
draft or money order Five Dollars ($5.00) made payable 
to H. E. Dickinson & Co., San Antonio, Texas, and the 
eight promissory notes for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents 
($2.50) each, properly signed. These notes are payable 



monthly and you will send us Two Dollars and Fifty Cents 
($2.50) each month, and we will return you your notes 
properly cancelled as you pay them. If you do not care 
to make this kind of an investment, kindly return the 
deed to us, in the enclosed envelope, after you have taken 
a few days to consider. We are placing our trust in your 
honesty and request you to make returns promptly. 

If you wish the adjoining lot send us money order 
for Five Dollars ($5.00), and we will send you deed with 
notes for you to sign. 

You can buy as many lots as you want. 



First ^M^ission 

' 'Concepcion" 

^uilt in 1713 




EARMINGTON is on the Asherton & Gulf Railroad, a few 
miles from the junction of the International & Great North- 
ern Railroad, in La Salle County, and in the greatest flowing well 
country in the world and surrounded by the richest land on earth. 
Farmington is a new town, where the Wiggins system of sub- 
irrigation is being demonstrated, and the result of this kind of 
irrigation is marvelous, as it puts the water just where and when 
it is needed, at the roots of plant life, avoiding the evaporation 
and baking of soil, as experienced by surface irrigation. This 
system is adaptable to the raising of vegetables, fruits and berries. 
Surface irrigation by gravity systems and flowing w^ells is better 
for large farms raising alfalfa, corn, cotton and such staples. 
Large flowing wells are near Farmington and whenever they are 
needed, they will be brought in at Farmington. The town of 
Farmington has a good future and you are fortunate in having 
the opportunity to make a small investment such as we offer you 
In Farmington. 




Depui ul 1 aiiiiinglun 




This is the way the water 
gushes out of the ground in 
the Artesian Beh of South- 
w^est Texas, and w^hile Far- 
mington is in this Artesian 
Belt, wells for an Artesian 
flow have not been put 
dow^n, as shallow^ wells are 
being used at present. 



A S®nnftlni ¥(g^as Fnirnnn 



This farm is irrigated 
and can be cultivated every 
month in the year, as 
weather conditions cannot 
interfere. 





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The market is never fully 
supplied with winter let- 
tuce and prices are always 
good. 




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Winter cabbages look 
good, especially when they 
are shipped early at top 
prices. 



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The Texas Peanut can 
not be excelled. They grow 
prolific with a fine flavor 
and a ready market. 








Crating Texas Bermuda 
Onions for shipment. This 
is the crop that is making 
people wealthy. 




Two crops a year can be 
grown, making from eighty 
to one hundred bushels per 
acre under irrigation. It is 
not unusual to make eighty 
bushels per acre in one crop 
without irrigation. 



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This crop is a great stock 
feeder, it grows fast and 
heavy and worth big mon- 
ey. 





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The Texas variety is the 
first in the market; big, 
sweet and juicy, selling at 
fancy prices. 




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Cantaloupes grown near 
Farmington are as sweet 
and fine as the celebrated 
Colorado Rockyfords and 
are on the market early. 



Fai ©ireSfliiirdl uniidl 
Sf^raiwlb®inrn©s 



The demand for figs can 
not be supplied. Straw- 
berries are grow^n betw^een 
the fig trees to great profit. 











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We all know that there 
is big money in celery and 
this is a good crop. 




¥@^®s E®iM(g 



An inexpensive Southern 
Texas home where happi- 
ness and health reign sup- 
reme. No worry or care, 
but full and plenty. 



Fnslbninii 



We have all kinds of 
fishing from Tarpon, Red 
Fish and Mackerel in the 
Gulf to the game fish of the 
lakes and streams. 





Hunting is always good. 
There is nothing like being 
out in a delightful climate 
with rod and gun. 




Our Little Farmer from Farmington— Health}) and Happy 




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FARMINGTON, TEXAS 



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HERE are many other things to illustrate 
but we can not illustrate them all. We 
have shown you enough to convince any 
man or w^oman vv^hy Farmington is a good 
opportunity. Texas is a wonderful state which can sup- 
port and take care of fifty millions of people, and the state 
is growing faster than any state in the Union. 

Many people have an idea that Texas is a wilderness 
and hesitate in coming to Texas on that account, but 
people down here have their automobiles and social func- 
tions the same as anywhere and live out in the pure air 
and sunshine, enjoying the best of health. 

The winters in Farmington are very mild and the 
heat of the summer is cooled by the Gulf breeze that blows 
continually. We never hear of heat prostration and there 
is never a night but w^hat a covering is comfortable. 

Take our advice and keep the deed we send you 
and also take the adjoining lot as you will never regret 
it. You will be glad some day to own a little real estate 
in Texas, and who knows but w^hat you may come to 
Farmington and Southwest Texas to live. 

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229 East Houston Street :: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 



TIE^ASoMEZHC© la: 



Small Farms. We can sell you a 1 0-acre farm with 
or without irrigation. 

Lar^e Farms. We can sell you farms from 100 
acres to 1000 acres. 

Grazing Lands. We have a fine listing of cattle, 
goat and sheep lands in all sizes. 

Colonization Tracts. We have agricultural lands 
listed, with the finest soil, from 1 000 acres to 1 00,000 
acres, in the rain belt or in the irrigated district. 

Mexico Lands. We have a listing of 100,000,000 
acres of all kinds of agricultural, grazing and timber lands 
in Mexico. 



We deal with the owners of land direct, or their res- 
ponsible representatives on a commission basis only. We 
do not permit the loading of prices and the land listed 
with us can be delivered with good title. 

Place yourself in the hands of a responsible real 
estate firm who can give you the benefit of their knowl- 
edge and experience. We solicit you as one of our clients. 

229 East Houston Street :: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 



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